"If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation."

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Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

Edith Schaeffer

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“Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House
“As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.”
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
“A dog will recognize his master in whatever way he dresses. The master may dress in robes, suit and tie, or stand naked, but the dog will always recognize his master. If we cannot recognize God, our beloved master, when he comes in a different dress from another religion, then we are less than that dog.”
“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
“The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.”
“A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.”
“Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.”

Source : "Feminism: A Moral Compass for Change?" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2010.

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